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Okay, let's say you've exhausted the full-length
poses, or hopefully with what I've taught you,
you'll never run out of poses ever again
where it's standing up and you know how
to change that those digits of that phone
number that I was telling you about, but
you wanna just simply a different look and
you want maybe to get the bride sitting
down.
Where do you begin?
How do you actually work with a bride
sitting down?
Well, first of all, sitting down, I find
easier to direct and pose when you're far
away, because right now she's sitting down, but
I can't really see what she looks like.
Now, yes, with experience, I know the starting
off point that would be better than what
I've got now, but let's start with this.
So Lisa's just sitting down normally, she's comfortable,
nothing fancy.
Now, does this look good?
Well, Lisa, it's very hard to make Lisa
look bad, but let's, for example, uncross your
legs for a moment, and you can see
how right now that there's really not much
shape to her.
She's basically sitting down, we're foreshortening her legs,
which is sometimes in this particular position, almost
impossible to avoid, because she is sitting and
she's bending her knees upwards.
Of course, as I go lower, I'm not
gonna get any of her thigh, I'm literally
just getting little nubby knees coming out of
her hips and that's gonna look a little
bit weird.
If you crop or you hide it, depending
on what you're doing, that's okay.
In this position, I actually don't mind it
because we do have some length and it
actually works really well.
The problem is that she is sitting flat
butt-cheeked, for want of a better phrase,
and there's no feeling there, there's no finesse.
So if you ever wanted to photograph a
bride seated and facing the camera, I find
there's only a couple of ways that will
work.
Certainly, we can adjust the hands in countless
ways, but the way I like to do
it is, I like to get, without moving
the chair, I want you to move your
butt a little bit more into the chair.
And then shoulders back, I want you to
lean forward with your chest.
Do you see how even now that she's
a bit more proper?
Okay, but the legs again, look a little
bit flat, there's no finesse in the lower
part of the body.
What I want you to do now is,
I want you to cross your right leg
over your left.
Now, so you see how now she has
a bit of a platform, automatically, she put
her hands on her lap and that actually
worked, but there's still no finesse in the
sense that it's just proper.
This is almost a bit too proper.
How could I make it work?
Well, I can certainly use the flowers, but
before I do that, I'm gonna get you
to bring your shoulders back, lean forward with
your chest.
I want you, I know that you're actually
just leaning your right leg over your left,
but I want you to bring your right
leg up a little bit higher.
Now do this for me.
Gorgeous.
Shoulders back and just tilt your face this
way, turn your face that way and chin
up.
Beautiful.
And do you sort of see how very
quickly, even though that she's facing the camera,
I'm getting a little bit of shape and
design.
I love the fact that we're turning her
face to the right.
I'm photographing her favorite side of her face,
which we discussed, and the hands are very
beautiful.
They're just draping over nicely.
Usually I would sometimes put the ring hand
over the other one.
Let's just try that.
Do you see how I'm emphasizing the hand
with the ring?
And then that works.
Now, if I changed the position of her
body and did a similar pose, it's amazing
how different it will look.
So let's do that.
I'm gonna need you to stand up Lisa
there for a moment and do a similar
pose for me.
So take a seat.
Okay, great.
So keep that leg there.
I'm actually happy that you did that because
that's actually wrong.
So do you see, I've always said to
you, bend the knee that's closest to the
camera.
And almost in any capacity, there's very few
situations where that doesn't apply.
What she's done without thinking is she's put
her left over her right.
And I find that in that position especially,
if her right was over her left, it's
gonna be a lot more finessed.
Let's do that.
Switch legs.
Do you see how now as well, not
only does it look more finesse and there's
a better shape, if let's say for example,
she was either slightly plus size or even
she's just a normal person, just like you
and me and had a little bit of
a belly, this is gonna be good because
it's gonna soften her a little bit and
it'll work really well.
If she was wearing a dress, let's say
that had exposed legs, because every so often
you might get a bride's dress that's a
little bit shorter, then this is also very,
very important to know that this is gonna
work better for you.
Do you see how her left arm and
her left wrist is pointing towards the camera?
This is basically again, for shortening her arm.
Now there's some situations it's almost impossible to
get rid of based upon the context of
the pose that you're doing and the angle
that you are.
But what I can do in this situation
is simply extend her left hand this way
and then bring it down again.
So bring it down on your wrist.
And do you see how now her elbow
is a bit more into her and now
there's a bit more length.
Now, if I wanted to finesse that pose
a little bit, bring those shoulders back.
You see how again, her chest looks fuller
and firmer, arch the back a little bit.
Good, chin up a little bit.
Now you can tilt the face this way,
turn the face, chin to the shoulder and
then eyes back at the camera, arm off
the body a little bit there too, beautiful
and the shoulders back again last minute.
Put the hands like that more.
Gorgeous, switch hands.
Think in that context, that looks better actually.
Beautiful, it works really well.
A simple adjustment here.
Watch what happens now when all I do
is actually use the back of the chair
for a little bit of finesse.
So you see how you're pretty much in
the center of that chair.
Lisa, I want you to come a little
bit more to the left of it.
Now, and then turn it a slight touch
this way.
Your elbow right here.
Perfect.
Let's have a look.
All right guys, so there's a couple of
things.
First of all, I love the fact that
the elbow is on the chair and the
softness of her hands.
Remember her hand is gonna look better, her
right hand or camera left if it comes
a bit more into her body.
That's it, so beautiful.
And yeah, just nice and relaxed.
Let the air out a little bit there
now.
Beautiful.
Now, do you see how with my suggestions,
I basically said that we're gonna bend the
leg that's closest to the camera.
In fact, the right leg is the one
that's closest to the camera, therefore it is
bent.
Now, her left hand and arm are draping,
but they're actually sort of pointing a little
bit more towards the camera and it's forming
a very, very straight line, which I don't
really like.
So what I'm gonna do here is a
couple of things.
Either extend it, and now bring it on
the knee and extend it so that basically
it's sort of like this.
And then bring the elbow back a little
bit and then turn your hand more that
way.
That's it.
Now, extend it a bit more and then
shoulder back.
So something like that can actually work, but
I find that something like this, the hand
on the body to sort of mirror the
other hand in a different way would be
beautiful.
So just bring your hand just on the
top of the chest.
That's gorgeous.
Tilt the hand, turn your face, chin up
a little bit.
Gorgeous.
Shoulders back, fantastic.
And that works really, really beautifully.
And again, if she's got flowers, she could
hold the flowers right at her waist there.
And this is a beautiful classic sitting down
portrait of the bride.
Now, where the opposing leg, the left leg
should be bent if she rolls her hips
even further, let me explain.
So I might get you to stand up
for this one just for a moment.
So what I want you to do, Lisa,
is this.
I'm gonna get you to sit down right
here.
You're gonna roll your hips so that this
leg is over this one and you're still
gonna put your elbow here.
Does that make sense?
Okay, so start there, roll your hips over.
There you go, perfect.
It's gorgeous.
So do you see how I've broken my
rules, so to speak, but for very good
reason.
Look how beautiful she looks there.
And actually her left hand looks even, it
makes more sense.
Bring your knee touching that chair if you
can.
And do you see how we've got this
beautiful curve?
And again, bring this face this way, chin
up a little bit, gorgeous.
Shoulders back, nice and tall and straight and
gorgeous.
Now, let's look at her left elbow.
Do you see how she's bending her arm
up, but from the angle in which this
camera is actually seeing her, it actually looks
straight.
If all I do is mirror the shape
of her curves with her elbow by simply
bringing the elbow back.
So now her arm and her bicep, and
her elbow are mirroring the shape of her
body.
And that hand is draped really beautifully.
And that can work really, really well.
Do you see how I've broken my rule,
but it's actually looks good.
That left is over the right, but it
works.
Why?
Because her hips are rolled around.
It actually looks really beautiful.
Okay, so now it's the groom's turn.
Okay, Dylan, let's get you over here.
I want you to pretend like you're sitting
down watching your favorite game after five minutes.
What would a guy look like watching TV
after five minutes?
Let's have a look.
Yep, pretty slouchy, sort of, yeah, pretty typical.
Look a bit clumsy and all that kind
of stuff, but it's a guy being a
guy.
We're not gonna change.
This is how we sit.
Now, we wanna look better.
How do we do that?
And especially the fact that we're wearing a
suit, we wanna look formal, we wanna look
beautiful, we wanna look cool.
So now I'm gonna get you sit up
straight.
Let's see if that works.
Bring your backside right into the edge of
that.
Okay.
Okay, so now you're sitting straight.
The problem is now, again, what he's doing
with his hands, he's hiding his crotch because
it's still a bit awkward and uncomfortable.
Let's say if he brings his knees together
and he's put his relaxed fist on his
knees.
This looks like a sports photograph.
It looks like he's in primary school or
whatever it is, and it looks a little
bit awkward.
Now, if I asked him to part his
knees, that's the way I ask it.
I never say to a guy or a
girl for that matter, spread your legs.
It just sounds terrible.
So parting your knees, parting your feet is
the best way to say that.
So what I want you to do is
now, rather than sitting, see how your backside's
right in?
I want you to sit right on the
edge.
Okay, so now, okay.
This is quite a strong, somewhat even aggressive
pose.
It basically means he means business, okay?
He looks really cool, but there's still something
wrong.
At least we're hiding his crotch with his
hands, but something doesn't feel right.
It's the angle.
It's just a little bit too confronting.
So here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna get you on a bit of
an angle.
And actually, we could even leave that there.
What I want you to do is take
back there.
Yep.
What I want you to do is I
want you to put your left foot forward
and your right foot back.
Yep, so left foot forward more.
And a bit more this way.
Cool.
Do you see how that looks a lot
cooler for a guy?
So one, if you're looking like a normal
guy like me, I'm like, yeah, I could
lose a few pounds in my belly here.
This is great because it's gonna be hiding
his belly.
His chest and his shoulders are close to
the camera and his waist is further back
and he looks cool.
He actually looks cool doing it.
Now, yes, in the context of this grand
scheme of things, I'll be cropping up a
lot closer.
For the sake of the argument in our
posing tutorial right now, I'm showing you the
context to understand the beginning point.
But do you see how his left leg
is forward and his right foot is back?
Watch what happens if we flip it.
So see how something doesn't feel right now.
It's almost like he's got nowhere to sort
of put his arms.
So the left foot should be a bit
forward, the right foot a bit back, and
we hang the body down a little bit.
And of course, this is dependent on the
chair.
If the chair's really low, he might look
a little bit awkward and clumsy leaning too
far forward.
So you either get a taller chair or
you can bring him up a little bit.
So just come up a little bit with
your body.
There for me, Dylan?
There you go, cool.
And we're relaxing our body.
And he can look off to the side,
for example.
That's it looking really cool, but it's got
a really cool, strong sort of masculine look.
He can also just cross his arms while
he's there.
Yep, but again, we're hanging our bodies.
Remember, when you're posing a guy, you don't
wanna stand too straight.
You know, when we talked about the V
or the C in terms of posing, well,
this is the C.
It's probably the other way, but you know,
you get that sort of that curve in
a masculine sense, not the S curve that
we often talk about in terms of a
bride.
Now, what I want you to do is
a cool shot for a guy is this.
Take a stand up for me again.
I want you to straddle.
Okay, so just take a seat and then
just rest your arms wherever they fall right
there.
Guys love this pose because it's very, very
cool.
It will hide your crotch.
It will basically hide a belly.
And of course, it's a great way of
showing off the little detail that guys have,
because of course, girls have so many accessories
to photograph.
Guys usually barely have a watch and maybe
cufflinks, a tie perhaps, all that kind of
stuff.
But this is a cool shot because he
looks strong.
The cufflinks are showing if you had cufflinks
and watch perhaps if it is.
And the cool thing is it works well.
Now, personally, I would not do it from
this exact angle.
It's too front onto me.
What I want you to do now is
grab the chair and yourself, twist it a
bit this way.
Yeah, that's cool.
It looks right there.
I love that on a bit of an
angle as well.
It just works well.
It looks cool.
Now, what happens if that chair, the back
of the chair is really, really high?
This is what you do.
What I want you to do, mate, see
how you're sitting pretty much in the center
of the chair.
I want you to, your right butt cheek
is still on the chair.
This left butt cheek is off.
So exactly, perfect.
Perfect.
I want this hand rest here and pretend
like this is a high top.
Yep, just there.
Perfect.
Let's have a look at that now.
And you can even go lower.
So upper body this way.
Yeah, and then rest your forearm on your
knee and bring your foot and your knee
to a point where that's comfortable for you.
Perfect.
Do you see how that would work as
well?
So this is a great shot for a
guy.
Guys love it.
It just works.
All right, very good.
So guys, we've talked about how to pose
like a bit of a foundation, an idea
of how to pose a girl or a
bride on a chair.
We've talked about a guy.
And of course, there's many, many variations.
I'm giving you the foundation to start from
and a couple of the pitfalls that I've
often done and I've actually made these mistakes
before.
But now how do we photograph a bride
and a groom sitting on a chair?
Well, who do you think would be better
to actually sit on a chair?
On whose lap?
Well, of course, you're gonna get the groom
to sit on the chair and her on
the lap.
So let's do that first.
So first of all, let's just get the
groom sitting down on his own first.
Okay, so what I want you to do
now is I want you to turn your
knees and your butt a little bit this
way.
Perfect, all right.
So Lisa, without thinking, I don't want you
to pose.
Don't think like a model or anything like
that.
I just want you to sit on his
lap.
Perhaps the way you would do normally.
Okay, great.
So what's wrong with this picture now?
What's wrong with this picture is that we've
got the right hand of hers coming out
of the shoulder, sort of doing nothing, perhaps
looking a little bit awkward.
Her knees are close together.
Nothing, there's no finesse there.
She's facing her body directly towards me.
He's got his hand on her butt and
there's just no finesse.
But I wanted a bit more finesse.
So what do we do?
Well, first of all, let's make it a
bit more intimate.
You are going to turn your knees a
little bit into him.
And now, because you've rolled your hips this
way, this now becomes a leg that's closest
to the camera, which means that we're going
to get this knee over the other one.
It's across your legs.
Now, what is this leg saying?
What is that knee saying?
What is that knee begging to be done
with?
It's basically, well, that's a perfect place to
put his hand and her hand over here.
Now, this hand, I believe, only works if
you bring it over this way, if it's
a little bit more around or you do
something with the face or something quite tender.
Personally, I find that it's a high degree
of difficulty when the hand is there, because
it can look a little bit awkward and
a little bit out of place.
So if you think it looks awkward, it
probably does.
Sometimes you just got to get rid of
it.
So let's come back and let's see what
we've got.
Now, we're almost there.
Perfect.
Shoulders back, arch the back and lean forward
this way.
Good.
Perfect.
And now, just Dylan, just relax your hair
a little bit so we don't have any
hair interrupting that moment.
That's a really important one.
Perfect.
So there's a great foundation pose when it
comes to a couple sitting.
Now, what can we do in that situation?
Of course, look at the camera.
We could look off to the distance over
here.
You could kiss his forehead right there.
Bang.
You could actually turn your face, Lisa, this
way.
And Dylan, you can give her a kiss
just right on the cheek.
Now you can introduce your hand on his
face.
Watch the arm pressing up against the body.
Both of you lean your upper bodies towards
me.
Good.
Beautiful.
Do you sort of see how very quickly
we can get two or three shots out
of that with no issue?
Great.
Relax a little bit.
Guys, this pose actually looks really awesome the
other way.
So stand up for a second.
And I'm gonna get you, Dylan as well,
get you to stand up as well.
So Dylan, if you can take a seat
for me.
Sit on his lap again.
So bring your backside, mate, right into the
chair there.
Good.
But you're gonna basically sit on his lap,
on his right.
And you're gonna roll your hips a bit
more this way.
And now you're gonna turn your face that
way.
Beautiful.
And just drape really nicely.
Gorgeous.
Turn your face into hers, mate.
Because even though that we can't see your
head, if your face is looking left, you're
not really into what's going on.
All right, stay there because I see a
problem which I'm happy to see because I
wanna show it to you.
Do you see how her arm is pressing
right up against the body there?
Again, she might like it because she's been
ripped.
She's gone to the gym.
She's feeling proud of that muscle, but that's
totally fine.
All we simply do is just take the
pressure off that particular thing there as well.
Gorgeous.
Now, bring your hand.
See how in her left hand in the
back of his head, do you see how,
from my position at least, it's amputating her
fingers?
And you know what, I don't like that,
or at least anymore.
Bring the hand up a little bit higher,
Lisa.
Good, and just bring it more this way.
More, more, more, more.
Good.
Gorgeous, love that.
Now, yes, by pure nature of the angle
of where I am in the pose, her
hand is that way, but that's looking a
lot better.
But what I'm getting at is that you
could have taken that shot of Lisa on
his lap and totally ignore the fact that
you could shoot the other way.
Now, either hopefully the lighting is good the
other way, or you create the good light,
or you simply have the choice to turn
that chair around and do exactly what I've
done.
And again here, you could giggle into the
camera, eyes into your shoulder.
You could kiss his temple.
Beautiful.
Come nice, close to his ear, like you're
whispering in his ear.
Top of your head away from me, Lisa,
so I can see more of your face.
No, top of your head away, like this.
There you go.
Turn your face more left.
Gorgeous, beautiful.
So all of a sudden, we've got a
whole other series of photographs.
It just works really well.
I love the science behind this, because it
actually, there are so many choices in the
end.
And if you're ever running out of poses,
guys, or concepts, you've got to ask yourself,
well, how many ways do you hug your
partner?
How do you sit together?
How do you walk together?
There are endless ways.
Now, how do we combine this?
Well, how about we do something like this?
So now, Dylan, I want you to take
a seat like you did before, like really,
really cool, leaning on the edge.
Yeah, perfect.
Do it this way.
So your knees are that way.
Yep, and then left foot back and the
right foot forward, and then you're hanging.
That's good, perfect.
So come a little bit more this way.
Good.
Now, Lisa, I want to get you almost
back to back.
Okay, so what I love about this particular
pose before I finesse it, is the fact
that there is, it's a bit asymmetrical.
It's not sort of too perfect.
Also, this could be for a couple, perhaps,
you know when you get a couple that
are not overtly in love, they're not that
lovey-dovey, they're sort of, they're quite sophisticated,
they're very proud, you've got a very powerful
guy, you've got also a very strong woman,
and the energy's arguably, you know, this kind
of shot works really well.
This could be for a corporate power couple
or something like that.
So remember, posing is not just about flattery,
it's about saying what you want to say
about the person that you're photographing.
So what we'll do is we'll keep you
there, mate, because you look really cool.
I want to get you right back so
that you're just touching, good.
I want you to point your toe towards
the camera, bend the knee, shift the weight
back, beautiful.
And now, actually, Lisa, come back a little
shuffle.
Keep going, good.
And I want you just leaning here, good.
This hand just on here, perfect, gorgeous, good.
Let's come back, let's have a look.
I love this because you've got this beautiful
triangular compositions.
You've got triangles in both of her arms.
You've got the triangle, of course, over the
whole pose.
You've got triangles on his arms.
You've got triangles on his legs.
And she's quite perfectly centered in this particular
frame.
So she looks strong and powerful, this beautiful,
strong, gorgeous woman.
And then you've got the guy.
He's got a strong pose, but even though
geographically you would say Lisa covers more of
the frame, because of the strength of his
pose, they're sort of more in line.
And if we're talking about composition, at least
in this particular case, I love the fact
that, yes, for the sake of this posing
tutorial, we're centering this particular shot, but this
is actually probably a way I would shoot
this picture, where she's centered and then he
breaks the monotony of this composition.
So I love that.
I think that actually works really well.
Now, if we wanted something a little bit
more intimate in this particular environment, we can
do something similar, but she just changes her
position.
So Dylan, stay where you are, but just,
I'm gonna move the chair with you.
So come back a little bit.
Okay, very good.
Now, I want you to basically stand right
between his knees.
And then I want you to put your
arm right around him, mate.
Gorgeous.
Okay, perfect.
So now, this hand, because you're taller, I
find works a bit better.
It's sort of framing what he's doing.
I want you to turn that knee right
in, like we've done before.
Bring it right into his hand there.
That's good.
And beautiful.
Now, we gotta be careful that his face
is not right in her bust, and it
looks a little bit weird.
So they're gonna almost have to form a
bit of a V.
So basically your body and your face, mate,
just separate a little bit.
Good, perfect.
I love the way she's sort of leaning
back and bringing her face back there a
little bit as well.
It's got a nice little level of sophistication
there as well.
And if you want to, we can get
them to hold hands together.
Let's just try that.
So your hand, gorgeous.
And then just bend the elbow up a
little bit.
I'm looking for a gap of air between
her elbow and her waist.
And again, just separate the chest to the
face there a little bit.
Good.
And turning this way a little bit.
That's it.
Now, do you see how Dylan is sinking
in a little bit?
I want to basically, Dylan, pretend I'm just
holding you by a piece of string on
your head, and I'm lifting you up.
There we go.
Fantastic.
So that actually is a really good way
of getting someone to sort of stretch out
a little bit because these guys have been
troopers.
We've been posing them and having some fun
all day here with our posing tutorial.
So they're getting a bit fatigued as they
would normally, but just remember that those are
the kinds of actions and things that we
can say to work well in as well.
Now that they've stretched away, that right hand
of hers can look a little bit weird.
I feel like, Lisa, we just get rid
of that right hand and then it can
just sort of come down in a way
where I don't see it on the side
of your body.
Fantastic.
Good guys.
So that's a really good way of doing
it too.
Here's another way that we can actually work
with this.
And that is, I want you to hug
him from behind.
So, Dylan, if we can just move that
chair a bit more forward.
Okay, great.
Without even thinking, I'm not gonna pose you.
I just want you to hug him from
behind.
Let's see what you do automatically.
Remember, you get your couple to pose themselves.
Let me see if it's worth renovating or
having to build from scratch.
Now, so I actually don't mind the upper
part of the body.
I find that because Lisa's leaning so far
forward, her booty's out and it looks a
little bit weird.
I actually love this shot, but I would
crop it close and I'd crop the awkwardness
of the lower part of her body.
So really, if we turned, actually do me
a favor, Dylan, just hold her hands.
If she was to just come behind you
and wrap, that's it.
Beautiful.
Now, Lisa, you put your hands on top
of his.
Beautiful.
Bring your left hand over your right.
There you go.
Beautiful.
I love the, actually, that's beautiful.
Do it the other way, Lisa.
Come back a bit more.
You did it beautifully just before.
Stop there.
Love that.
These hands are beautiful.
Love these.
And now this is just nice and soft.
So I love the repetition.
And as we've said before, in posing and
in many things in life, for that matter,
there's harmony and repetition.
Now, yes, she's looking a little bit awkward
there.
Again, lower part of the body.
We're not looking at that.
We're looking at the upper part.
We're gonna be careful of her bicep resting
up against his shoulder there as well, but
that can actually work.
Now, another way of doing this is also
just doing a very sophisticated shot in a
pose, and that is just getting her to
stand up right behind him.
So I'm gonna get you to basically hold
his shoulders.
Come nice and close this way.
Come a bit more beyond the chair.
Good.
And just bend that knee in.
Gorgeous.
And this one, this is basically, you know,
behind every successful man there's a strong, incredible
woman, which is true in my case certainly,
and I'm sure you guys as well.
But I like this.
So what we can do too, guys, crossing
the legs of the groom is always a
good thing.
Now, watch what happens when he crosses his
left leg in this position.
So just cross your leg, not in that
way, but like that.
Yep.
So it gives him somewhere to put his
hands, but we wanna be careful that the
foot is just facing the camera and looking
a little bit weird.
Let's switch legs.
I find that works a little bit better
because it gives him somewhere to go with
his hand right here.
That's sort of like almost begging to just
be done there.
And of course, even that, nice and relaxed.
And I want you, Lisa, just push off
a little bit there and then shoulders back,
lean forward with the chest a little bit
there.
Beautiful shape to the body.
And now, Dylan, just tilt your head this
way.
This way.
Yeah.
So now, here's the thing.
I would probably get rid of Lisa's left
hand in this position.
And you don't really need to see it.
You're not really saying, well, where is her
left hand?
It just works.
If you wanted some kind of emotional content
in this particular shot, apart from the fact
that she's touching him, we could get her
hand down, her left hand down, and then
basically your right hand could go touch it
again there.
But bring it up a little bit higher.
And Lisa, I wanna see your hand on
top.
Gorgeous.
So you see how that can just add
that little bit of emotional element there as
well?
And life is good.
This could work full length.
This could work close up.
This could work in many, many ways.
Remember, guys, whatever you're doing, you've got to
actually think about posing as not just some
structure, not just some, I'm there to flatter
someone or whatever.
You are there to not only flatter, but
make it purposeful and meaningful based upon their
relationship.
So if you do have, if you know
that this, like he thinks he's the boss,
but she is.
In other words, she's the one that's just
behind him and she's the strength, she's the
rock.
This is a good way to say that
story, because she looks strong and feminine and
powerful, but he also looks very strong too.
And they've both got a beautiful feel to
them.
And we've got that beautiful triangular composition, which
of course is aesthetically pleasing.
So remember, sitting down shots can really, really
work in this context.
So guys, hope you enjoyed that.
There's many other ways that we can do
it.
I'm giving you, like I said, principles.
We've started off our posing tutorial with a
lot of principles, but you see how we
apply those principles based upon all those different
types of shots that we're doing.
So remember, just play and practice.
There are so many ways to do this.
And of course, we're gonna explore some more
right now.
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